{"id":352424,"date":"2010-02-22T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/old_guys_dig_young_women_other_creepy_facts_from_o.php"},"modified":"2010-02-22T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T00:08:08","slug":"old-guys-dig-young-women-other-creepy-facts-from-okcupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/352424","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Old Guys Dig Young Women&#8221; &amp; Other Creepy Facts from OKCupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/okcupid.jpg\">Last year, we ruffled a few feathers when we posted some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/white_guys_suck_other_insights_from_okcupid_study.php\">OKCupid data on dating and race<\/a>. We&#8217;re sure this latest news is going to be equally unpopular, but <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.okcupid.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/16\/the-case-for-an-older-woman\/\">the data<\/a> support the conclusions, so here we go.<\/p>\n<p>Women users of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okcupid.com\/\">online dating site<\/a> state a range of preferred ages for partners that is relatively normal, and when it comes to reaching out to other users, they stay pretty strictly within their own self-imposed guidelines. However, men on the site continue to state a preference for 20-something girls well into their later years. And even when male users state a cut-off age, they continue to contact women who are below that age. <\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">tweetmeme_url = 'http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/old_guys_dig_young_women_other_creepy_facts_from_o.php';tweetmeme_source = 'rww';<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong>Culture of sexual exploitation or personal preference? Check out the graphs below and let us know what you think in the comments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>Sponsor<\/em><br \/><a href='http:\/\/d.ads.readwriteweb.com\/ck.php?n=18394&amp;cb=18394' ><img src='http:\/\/d.ads.readwriteweb.com\/avw.php?zoneid=14&amp;cb=18394&amp;n=18394' border='0' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For starters, OKCupid&#8217;s blog states, &#8220;Men between 22 and 30 &#8211; nearly two-thirds of the male dating pool &#8211; focus almost exclusively on women younger than themselves&#8230; A man, as he gets older, searches for relatively younger and younger women. Meanwhile his upper acceptable limit hovers only a token amount above his own age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what that looks like in a graph format:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.okcimg.com\/blog\/older_lover\/Male-Match-Prefs.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Women, on the other hand, display an &#8220;admirable openness to both reasonably younger and reasonably older men,&#8221; with the exception of early-20s young women who generally prefer to date slightly older young men.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.okcimg.com\/blog\/older_lover\/Female-Match-Prefs.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where the plot thickens: Stated age preferences are fine and dandy, but how different genders actually interact with potential dates of varying ages belies male users&#8217; statements about who they&#8217;re really looking to meet.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a heat map overlaid with the women&#8217;s stated age preferences. You can see that, with striking regularity, women mean it when they say they want to find a partner within a given age range:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.okcimg.com\/blog\/older_lover\/Female-Msg-Prefs.png\"><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the data show that 29-year-old women generally stop messaging significantly younger men.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here&#8217;s the data on men&#8217;s messaging habits:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.okcimg.com\/blog\/older_lover\/Male-Msg-Prefs.png\"><\/p>\n<p>The men in this study consistently reached out to the youngest of the women in their preference range &#8211; which already heavily favors younger women. Moreover, they don&#8217;t cut themselves off at their stated minimum age preference. &#8220;No matter what he&#8217;s telling himself on his setting page,&#8221; reads the OKCupid blog, &#8220;a 30-year-old man spends as much time messaging 18- and 19-year-olds as he does women his own age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taking into account this data about sexual desirability and women&#8217;s responses to frank questions about sex acts and exploration, the OKCupid researchers determined a socio-sexual sweet spot for men to consider:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.okcimg.com\/blog\/older_lover\/Ideal-World2.png\"><\/p>\n<p>To some, this graph might look like an episode of Cougartown. But the folks at OKCupid feel that &#8220;older&#8221; women get a bad rap in the online dating world &#8211; one that they don&#8217;t necessarily deserve.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your experience or opinion on the matter? 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We&#8217;re sure this latest news is going to be equally unpopular, but the data support the conclusions, so here we go. Women users of the online dating site state a range of preferred ages for partners that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}